Google is watching you
-
Google Analytics and other programs cross reference your device's fingerprints to keep track of you.
-
@Captain ......
it's google..... it's kinda their thang.
-
@accalia I know. Some people are skeptical, though.
-
@Captain said in Google is watching you:
Some people are skeptical, though.
That is the exact person and post I thought of when reading the OP.
-
It's almost like the EFF pointed this out fucking YEARS ago with their browser fingerprinting tool. :|
-
@Polygeekery So, as always, Google collects so much data that no one can consume it all, at such a fast rate that they have to deal with duplicate GUIDs.
They have automated systems trying to bring things to the people they think should see them.
But does that really count as personal targeting?
-
If Google is watching me, they're going to be really bored.
-
@Magus said in Google is watching you:
deal with duplicate GUIDs.
Hmm. Just noticed that every Google-service thingy I have (gmail, android phone) has a "give me a new tracking GUID" option somewhere.
I wonder if that's rate limited? I wonder if a global-effort / malware could, in theory, exhaust that pool...
-
@Magus said in Google is watching you:
But does that really count as personal targeting?
I got a new tablet today. Apparently it signed me in to Google on all my apps, because when I opened Maps because my son told me there was a car accident near the time I was to head home from work, I noticed it put my son's and wife's names on the map at our apartment. That's a little freaky.
-
@FrostCat so? That's just what accounts are all about these days. I call that convenient.
-
@Magus
It would be even more freaky if it showed at the neighbour's address.
-
@FrostCat said in Google is watching you:
I noticed it put my son's and wife's names on the map at our apartment. That's a little freaky.
i didn't know it could do that. Neat.
-
@swayde said in Google is watching you:
@FrostCat said in Google is watching you:
I noticed it put my son's and wife's names on the map at our apartment. That's a little freaky.
i didn't know it could do that. Neat.
Sure it can. It put @fox's mom's name all over the back alleys near where I live.
-
@Lorne-Kates said in Google is watching you:
@swayde said in Google is watching you:
@FrostCat said in Google is watching you:
I noticed it put my son's and wife's names on the map at our apartment. That's a little freaky.
i didn't know it could do that. Neat.
Sure it can. It put @fox's mom's name all over the back alleys near where I live.
-
Good news is, if you get the most popular browser on the most popular OS, don't install any fonts, don't change screen size/resolution and in general keep all settings at defaults, you're safe. Until they take a fingerprint of your audio device itself, that is.
-
@El_Heffe said in Google is watching you:
@Lorne-Kates said in Google is watching you:
@swayde said in Google is watching you:
@FrostCat said in Google is watching you:
I noticed it put my son's and wife's names on the map at our apartment. That's a little freaky.
i didn't know it could do that. Neat.
Sure it can. It put @fox's mom's name all over the back alleys near where I live.
That koala looks like the end of 1984.
-
@Lorne-Kates said in Google is watching you:
"give me a new tracking GUID" option somewhere.
I wonder if that's rate limited? I wonder if a global-effort / malware could, in theory, exhaust that pool...
Finally, a greater waste of computing power than Bitcoin!